TRIP TO LISBON : PORTUGAL

Advices to travel to Lisbon Lisbon is not a difficult destination for the traveler or the tourist. The language is similar, which will allow us to understand all the cartels and to communicate by some means or another and the people are cozy, neither for what will be big problems. Nevertheless, here I leave some advices you to visit Lisbon that they you can be of usefulness.

Treating with the inhabitants of Lisbon · The Greenwich Mean Time of Portugal it is an hour less than that of the peninsular Spain and Balearics. It is good that we bear in mind, especially on having come, to update the hour of the clock and to to come too soon to the appointments, the record in the hotels, the public transport or to have to do time at the edge of a museum that still has not opened.

· For much that is not the Spanish and nobody has the obligation to understand itself or to speak itself in your language. The Portuguese are patient, but very formal and detest the arrogance. If you claim that they understand you in Spanish in a shop or a bar or that they speak to you more slow, ask for it patiently and humility. The image of the Spanish in Portugal is arrogant enough and the tourists we help it in occasions. And care with some false friends (as it calls to those words that look like other Spanish women, but that they mean very different things) a bit awkward.

· The Portuguese are very formal and polite persons and hope from the visitors that they are also polite, nice and patient. It seems to be unnecessary to with a "obrigado/obrigada" (it depends on if you are man or woman) they will guarantee a better treatment. The education of some tourists - who in the big European capitals are frightened by the world but in Lisbon the kings of the mambo believe themselves - there stops much that to wish.

To eat in Lisbon

· Take From Yourself of the head the concept of the lids. In Lisbon he eats up and is supped on of plate. Probably in the snack bar or in some special places - as the bar of the House do Alentejo - could ask for some cheese with a drink, but the concept of lids like informal food does not exist. · For this reason, have care in spite of filling yourself of the typical plates of cheese, olives, pâtés, butter and other inlets that put you without you have asked for it in the restaurants of Lisbon before the principal plate. It is not a gift of the house, but you will have to pay it with the account and, sometimes, it is what ends up by raising the account more than the own food.

· The schedules of food in Portugal belong different from the Spanish. For the dinner, the restaurants are in the habit of being more flexible, but at the moment of the food it is better not to wait too much to look for a place to eat, since the restaurants close the kitchen soon or already enough they have exhausted some of the it is late to eat and, at three o'clock, the great majority of the restaurants have closed already his kitchen.

Transport in Lisbon

· Almost all the tickets of public transport go precargados in the Card 7 Hills or the Alive Viagem. Always it comes well to have someone to hand if we need it suddenly, since it works out cheaper than the ticket bought in the bus. In the meter we can load the titles that we need in the card. It yes, to load titles different from those that we had, the card has to be empty. Have it in account with the daily tickets or the tourist credits, in order that they do not make you buy another card.